In Forum Settings the new default setting for Sort Field and Direction displays Subject / Descending.

My forums, and probably the vast majority of others, has always had the last post at the top of the forum so why is this not the default setting?

I have noticed that when I change the default to Last Post Time / Descending and press Submit Changes, the refreshed page displays the defaults as Last Post Time / Ascending which isn't what I requested.

My other question in connection to 'why has the default sort order changed to subject' is that if I do have to change everything manually back to the required Last Post Time / Descending how can I change all the forums at the same time instead of having to do them all separately?

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Thanks Ruben. Still need to find out why the default is set as 'Subject' though when it really should be 'Last Post Time' and if there is a way to alter a global default setting for all forums at the same time.

I can't even get it to change. I realized this problem just today and went through and set my entire wine forum to sort (properly) by post date. However they all post ascending. I deliberately went in and set them to descending but it still leaves them at ascending in the public view. So it's not just a control panel "mis-display" in my forum - it won't let me change the order to most recent on top for some of my forums.